Adena Friedman
Chair and CEO, Nasdaq · 0 appearances on the record.
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Adena Friedman became CEO of Nasdaq in 2017—making her the first woman to lead a major global exchange—and has driven its transformation into a technology and data analytics provider. She previously served as the Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group.
The record, in short
What the tape says about how Adena argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.
How they sound: speaking style how? →
259 words/min while actually speaking · 2.1 um and uh per 1k words
No argument clarity score for Adena Friedman: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.
Measured by listening to 5,358 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Adena Friedman is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →
Everything Adena Friedman said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
The other half of the tape: Adena Friedman's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 2 episodes on the a16z Podcast. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Sonal Chokshi 1Jeff Jordan 1